Re: [PATCH] ext4: update ctime and mtime for truncate with extents.

[Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>]

On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 10:43 +0200, Solofo.Ramangalahy@bull.net wrote:
> ext4: update ctime and mtime for truncate with extents.
> 
> From: Solofo Ramangalahy <Solofo.Ramangalahy@bull.net>
> 
> The recently announced "Linux POSIX file system test suite"
> catched a truncate issue when using extents:
> mtime and ctime are not updated when truncate is successful.
> 
> This is the single issue catched with "default" ext4 (mkfs and mount
> with minimal options).
> The testsuite does not report failure with -o noextents.
> 
> With the following patch, all tests of the testsuite passes.
> 
Thanks for the fix.

> Signed-off-by: Solofo Ramangalahy <Solofo.Ramangalahy@bull.net>
> 
> ---
>  fs/ext4/extents.c |    1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> Index: linux-2.6.25-rc8-git5-ext4-52c7a8013ad2c452551a68ff4daab4bacbe28f9d/fs/ext4/extents.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.25-rc8-git5-ext4-52c7a8013ad2c452551a68ff4daab4bacbe28f9d.orig/fs/ext4/extents.c
> +++ linux-2.6.25-rc8-git5-ext4-52c7a8013ad2c452551a68ff4daab4bacbe28f9d/fs/ext4/extents.c
> @@ -2947,6 +2947,7 @@ out_stop:
>  		ext4_orphan_del(handle, inode);
> 
>  	up_write(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_data_sem);
> +	inode->i_mtime = inode->i_ctime = ext4_current_time(inode);

Shouldn't we mark inode dirty after the ctime and and mtime is changed?

>  	ext4_journal_stop(handle);
>  }
> 

Regards,
Mingming
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